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This is Jim Fraser`s story: an incredible, often chilling account of his life as an army deserter living through the terrible upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, when China descended into a moral and physical chaos so extreme that cannibalism became, for some, the only way of survival. Unable to speak the language and totally ignorant of local customs, Jim Fraser makes his home in a community so isolated that even the Cultural Revolution impinges little on the ways of the villagers. Except that the village`s very isolation has made it the perfect location for experiments of sheer, indescribable terror...
`I suspect this book will be compared with Robinson Crusoe (the outsider building his own abode) and Lord of the Flies (the long-term effects of context on individual mortality). It is a profound and sophisticated work of fiction` Observer
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About the Author
Sid Smith is a journlist now working as a sub-editor on a national newspaper. He spent his early working life as a dustman, docker, builder's labourer and railway worker before moving into journalism full-time. He lives in London and is currently at work on his second novel.
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'I suspect this book will be compared with Robinson Crusoe (the outsider building his own abode) and Lord of the Flies (the long-term effects of context on individual mortality). It is a profound and sophisticated work of fiction' Observer
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0330480871
- ISBN 13 9780330480871
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages250
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